Bridesmaid dress saved woman's life as tight bodice alerted her to a cancerous lump

SAVIOUR: Felicity Hallett with the bridesmaid dress that saved her life [WALES NEWS SERVICE]

Felicity Hallett, 37, felt the gown digging into her side and found a lump that was diagnosed as breast cancer.

Mum-of-two Felicity said: “I wouldn’t wear a dress that tight normally but all the bridesmaids were in matching outfits.

“It felt a bit tight under my arm while the wedding pictures were being taken.

“I was wriggling to make the bodice more comfortable when I found a lump.

“I didn’t know it at the time but the dress saved my life.”

Student teacher Felicity went to the doctor the following day and was given antibiotics for a suspected cyst.

“I didn’t know it at the time but the dress saved my life”

Felicity Hallett

But when the lump did not go down she had more tests and was found to have breast cancer.

Felicity said: “I knew immediately from the expression on the doctor’s face that it was bad news.

“I couldn’t take it in at first because I felt so well in myself. I hadn’t felt poorly at all.” Felicity, of Bristol, was one of three bridesmaids when her best friend Claire Thomas tied the knot with Christopher Jones.

She has almost completed an eight-week course of chemotherapy and will have surgery next month.

Felicity, mum to Noah, four, and Martha, two, said: “Cancer is such a sneaky disease. I want to tell other women to make sure they examine themselves properly.